TrueLife - Unveiling the Hidden Power of Adrenaline: Dr. Michael E. Platt, Author of ‘Adrenaline Dominance’

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

One on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. Use Promocode TRUELIFE for Get 25% off monthly or 30% off the annual plan For the first yearhttps://www.district216.com/Dr. Michael E. Platt's "Adrenaline Dominance: A Revolutionary Approach to Wellness.  This book challenges the conventional understanding of health by shedding light on a powerful hormone that has remained in the shadows for far too long.  Imagine a hormone so potent that it plays a central role in numerous health conditions that have baffled the medical community. This is the essence of "Adrenaline Dominance." Dr. Platt's book boldly asserts that excess adrenaline, often disregarded by conventional medicine, could be an underlying trigger for a myriad of seemingly incurable conditions. From ADHD and fibromyalgia to anger, depression, and severe PMS, the effects of excess adrenaline are far-reaching and pervasive. But the revelations don't stop there. Adrenaline's influence extends to surprising realms: it's the reason why some women experience unrelenting nausea throughout their pregnancies, and it's the hidden force driving people towards substances like drugs and alcohol. Even during the night, adrenaline orchestrates disturbances like tossing and turning, teeth grinding, nocturnal bathroom trips, and unexplained weight gain. Dr. Platt's book unravels the mystery behind why our bodies produce the "fight or flight" hormone even in the absence of imminent danger. Through accessible explanations, the book provides an in-depth understanding of how adrenaline operates within the body and how its excessive presence can lead to serious medical issues. What sets "Adrenaline Dominance" apart is its groundbreaking natural protocol designed to swiftly counteract the effects of excess adrenaline. This protocol has the potential to prompt patients to reevaluate their dependence on prescription medications that merely address symptoms without tackling the root causes of their ailments. https://plattwellness.com/collections/books/products/adrenaline-dominance-ebook One on One Video call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkg

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I would love to introduce everybody today to prepare to embark on a journey of discovery as we delve into the groundbreaking insights of Dr. Michael E. Platt, the author of adrenaline dominance, a revolutionary approach to wellness. In a world where health mysteries persist, Dr. Platt boldly shines a light on the overlooked but powerful hormone adrenaline. This hormone, often relegated to the shadows, holds the key to understanding an array of seemingly incurable conditions, from ADHD to fibromagalia and depression and more. Dr. Platt's work not only unravels the enigma surrounding excess adrenaline, but also offers a transformative natural protocol that has the potential to reshape how we approach

health care. Today we have the privilege of exploring this paradigm shifting perspective with Dr. Michael E. Platt, a board certified internist and pioneer in natural hormone replacement. Dr. Platt, thank you for being here today. Maybe you can explain to us what influenced you to write this book. First of all, I got enamored with hormones. And this happened after my mother died of breast cancer. And right after she died, I realized that I had inherited her hormones. You know, men and women had the identical hormones, different levels, the same hormones. And I realized that she had little progesterone because she had breast cancer, because she had a belly on her. And at that time, I used to have to slap my face when I was driving trying to keep my eyes open. And this was a low blood sugar. So I

knew I was overproducing insulin. So I started using progesterone to see if, anyway, ever since I started using progestin cream, I never got sleep in a car again. So I got intrigued with hormones, learned as much as I could, opened up a hormone clinic in 1995. And I had the, I guess, the fortunate situation where I could sit down and talk to somebody for two hours. You know, that you learn about medicine, talking to people. And I realized, after I had talked to a number of patients, they all had a lot of the same complaints. And these complaints, the only thing that could have been causing them was increased adrenaline. And nowhere in my readings that I ever read about adrenaline. And, but over the years, what I've realized is that excess

adrenaline is the underlying cause of many conditions actually felt to be incurable. You know, for example, ADHD. I believe that my book is the only book that even talks about ADHD. And adrenaline. But in order to eliminate, you know, if you have a condition that you want to eliminate, you have to treat the cause. So needless to say, when you treat the reason why somebody's putting out a lot of adrenaline, you could actually eliminate ADHD, chronic canceritis, PMDD, all these conditions felt to be incurable. So I decided to my book about adrenaline. Because I couldn't find any books on adrenaline.

And I think that the public has the right to know. Our whole medical system is sort of controlled by drug companies. They're in charge of the FDA. and the medical boards and they, they determine what doctors learned in medical school. And so an entity that has no interest in people being healthy is what controls medicine. So, I'm good, but anyways,

so we'll talk about adrenaline, and I think people will find it interesting. Yeah, that is fascinating. And I'm glad you brought up that point about who really owns the medical system, And if there's not a whole lot of profit in there, then maybe they're not as interested in how they should be. Well, basically the medical treatment of too much adrenaline is progesterone. And that's a natural product.

And drug companies cannot patent natural products if they're no interest in it. What do you think is causing this over, over production of adrenaline? Is this something that happens in everybody or is there symptoms to it or is it lifestyle? I can tell you pretty, pretty definitively that if somebody does have excess adrenaline, one of both parents had excess adrenaline. It's always genetic, always. So if you have a child with ADHD, that means one of both parents have ADHD. Just won't let you know that.

Yeah, it's interesting. We don't hear about this kind of stuff in the modern literature. And it's interesting. When I think of adrenaline, I'm often reminded of the fight or flight response. How does this survival mechanism manifest in our modern lives? And how can it impact our daily behavior in decision making? Well, bite or flight is one of the reasons why the body puts out adrenaline. But that's actually a very rare reason, option of adrenaline, is to make sure the brain has enough glucose, sugar.

And because the brain can't operate without it. In fact, the brain uses more sugar than any other tissue in the body. People don't realize that. So why this is important? is that the primary treatment of excess adrenaline is to get the right fuel to the brain so the body doesn't have to use adrenaline to provide fuel. And we'll get into this, but the brain uses two different fuels. One of them is glucose, and that's where adrenaline comes in. It process called gluconeogenesis where it converts protein into sugar. and so yeah it's interesting to think what is the relationship between adrenaline and neurotransmitters

it almost seems like is is as adrenaline the fuel for the neurotransmitters to run on or what's going on in the brain chemistry in there do we know the um the adrenaline is a neurotransmitter it's also a hormone Ah. The, I'm sorry about that. That's okay, no problem at all. The, yeah. So, but it's a powerful hormone and it's a powerful neurotransmitter. The, when people have a lot of adrenaline, you know, just if your listeners want to know if they have a lot of adrenaline,

grind their teeth, that's adrenaline. People that very often get up to urinary, especially around 2.30 in the morning when adrenaline peaks is another symptom. But when people have a lot of adrenaline, they're quick to anger because adrenaline is an angler hormone. That's where road rage comes from. And you can actually get rid of road rage in 24 hours just by lowering adrenaline. But also when people have a lot of adrenaline, they may find that they carry a lot of adrenaline. lot of tension in the back of the neck. And this can cause tinnitus ringing the ears. And it can cause severe headaches. There's a headache called occipital neuritis. Cause excruciating headaches 100% of the time

for migraines. Now, this is not a migraine headache, and this is an easy headache to get rid of. migraines, not so much. So actually, just putting some progestion cream at the back of the neck, gets rid of that tension that people carry. Also, when people have cold hands and cold feet, that's not a low thyroid. That's adrenaline. Because adrenaline constricts blood vessels.

It cuts off blood supply to the intestines. That's where IBS comes from. And it also cuts off blood supply to the salivary glands. That's why saliva test, I never recommend for hormones. The hormones don't get into the saliva. And because they get a low cortisol, because the blood is cut off. It's where they come up with a diagnosis of adrenal fatigue,

which is a condition that doesn't exist. Adrenal fatigue is really adrenaline dominant. So, anyway. And the, but again, but again, there are a lot of conditions associated with excess adrenaline. Even bipolar disorders, that's excess adrenaline. So anyway. It's fascinating to think about so many of those. these symptoms and I know that just listening to them I've I've been in I've had multiple of

those symptoms throughout you know the last few years in my life does this seem does excess adrenaline seem to be something that happens later in life or can it happen through all stages of life well it it can start as an infant you know babies that have colic that's adrenaline and these are the babies that do a lot of kicking in the womb by the way um You know, you may have heard of women that vomit throughout their entire pregnancy. That's adrenaline also and easy to fix. The, but, and then after, you know, colic, you just put some progestic cream in the baby's belly. It goes away in about five minutes.

The, and then bedwetting and children is only caused by excess adrenaline. And you only see that in creative type children. And the reason for that is that creative people had the most adrenaline. And that you may be a little, yourself, you may be creative. But if you look at the music industry, the amounts of drugs and alcohol, you know, people get into drugs and alcohol when they have a lot of adrenaline because they just want to relax because adrenaline, you know, makes them a little bit hyper. So, but they don't treat the cause of white people get it to drugs and alcohol, but they should. Yeah. Yeah.

It's, has this been like, it seems to me that if this is something that's been happening to people for a long time, has, has this, is it a trend that it's spiking? Is it something like a lifestyle choice that's causing it? Is it, is obviously genetic? but is it something that's getting more and more frequent with people or is it that we're just not treating it or is there some kind of trend that the The incidence is probably the same now as it's been for the last hundred years It's just not recognized I see Which is very surprising Yeah it like we often hear about negative effects of like chronic stress on health and

How does it we spoke a little bit about this but how does it? We spoke a little bit about this but how does it? fit into the picture of stress? And what can you do to, what can individuals do to mitigate its effects on their behavior? Well, the only thing that causes stress is adrenaline. You know, a lot of people playing cortisol. But actually cortisol is released in response to stress.

And, you know, both adrenaline and cortisol, they both raise sugar levels. And, you know, adrenaline peaks at 2.30 in the morning, means that cortisol peak, I'm in bed, they're putting out two hormones that raise sugar levels. And the whole thing about sugar, it doesn't matter whether you're eating sugar or if the body's making it. If you don't burn it up, then the body takes all that excess sugar and puts it into fat cells to be stored as fat. And I am convinced that increased adrenaline may be the number one causes of weight gain, and nobody ever talks about it. You know, keep in mind that

people are gaining weight while they're sleeping and no you know nobody you don't even think about that so and the thing about adrenaline um you may have heard of talk about telomeres you know that at the end of chromosomes and they sort of determine how long somebody lives well the number one thing that shortens telomeres is adrenaline stress um so it so it's important for people to think about and and what they'll realize you can treat it. Yeah. It's what about is there a, it seems to me that there would be a connection between adrenaline dominance and like addictive behaviors or substance abuse.

Is there a relationship between those two things and the treatment and recovery? Absolutely. Like I said, people get into drugs and alcohol just to relax, just to chill out. And so just by reducing adrenaline, you can eliminate their need to get into drugs and alcohol. You know, people go to anger management class, which does nothing. But, you know, anger management class could teach people how to reduce adrenaline. Like I said, you can get rid of road rage in 24 hours. It's gone.

It kind of makes me wonder. Like it seems to me that there's a profound effect on behavior. Like when I think about anger management class and I think it seems to me like people are not able to communicate effectively. Is adrenaline having having something to do there? Does it block the way in which we can think in a clear level? I guess stress does that too. Well, ADHD. Okay.

People with ADHD are trouble focusing. And so, and, but if they're interested, they can focus. So the whole thing about ADHD is not a learning disorder. It's an interest disorder. They're interested in focus. But like I say, you can, just by lowering adrenaline, you can get rid of ADHD in 24 hours. So, you know, it's very rewarding to get people well. I came to see me because every morning he would wake up and vomit.

And the only thing that'll cause that is adrenaline. There's nothing else that will cause that. And he had severe fibromyalty. This man had a lot of adrenaline. It was very obvious. And I put some progestin cream on his forearm and he rubbed his arms together. We started talking. And about five minutes after he got the progestin cream,

he sat back in his chair and he looked at me and he said, doc my entire life. I had never felt this good. And he never had another episode of vomiting after he left my office. And his fibromyalgia went away. Wow. So like you say, it's very rewarding to get people well. And doctors sometimes don't see that.

They should, but they don't. Yeah, it does seem rewarding to help people get to a state where they can begin to live their life in some sort of normality, whatever that means. Well, but you know, like I say, it's good for babies that have colic, but the idea of giving a baby or children hormones is very much adverse to what doctors think. But, you know, hormones control everything in the body. And when when the fetus is in the womb, it gets exposed to incredibly high levels of progesterone. So they're being exposed to a hormone that they're very familiar with and that's very helpful. That's how the brain actually develops is with

progesterone. So, but, you know, like I'm saying, if you talk, if somebody talks to their doctor about giving their child progesterone, they pray will not find a doctor as willing to do that. But you can buy progesterone over the counter. You don't need a prescription for it. My website has the exact strength that somebody needs a progesterone that blocks adrenaline. Or they can get a prescription for it and get it to a compound of pharmacy, but that's more expensive. So the thing about, you know, progesterone, not only does it block a adrenaline, it also blocks insulin. Remember I mentioned that I never get sleepy in a car anymore because I don't get hypoglycemic. So it blocks insulin and adrenaline, but it's not even known for

these. The only thing that progestion is known for is to block estrogen, which is also a toxic hormone. So it blocks the three most toxic hormones in the body, you know, progesterone. And you don't hear about progesterone. And now doctors are giving prescripts. for oral progesterone, and they don't realize that oral progestin converts into a different hormone called allopregnolum. It's not progesterone. You know, people should be made aware of this. And they should also know the progestin good for dogs.

Dogs that have separation and anxiety. You know, a lot of people have anxiety, and the only thing, the only thing that causes anxiety is adrenaline. And so when dogs have separation anxiety is because of adrenaline. So you put some progestin cream inside their ear, and in about one minute, the separation anxiety is gone. So again, you don't hear about this, but I'm just saying. Yeah.

Sometimes I read somewhere that adrenaline is portrayed as like a double-edged sword in terms of brain function. How can the brain harness the positive aspects of adrenaline while, mitigating its potential harmful effects. Be some rabbinical questions. But the thing about adrenaline is what gives people intelligence. And it's also the hormone or neuro-explanter transfer to that's responsible for creativity. And that's why created people have so much adrenaline.

And but you can control it. can manage it, you know, by, again, using progesting cream and eating correctly. Eating correctly is more important than the cream is. And by eating correctly, the brain uses two different fuels. One is glucose. That's the type of sugar that it uses. And the best source of glucose comes from vegetables because they don't produce a lot of insulin. And then the other fuel, which is even more important or genetic diet. You get ketones directly from coconut oil or something called MCT oil, which comes from coconut oil. So there are ways of providing fuel to the brain that are not that difficult. And you know, MCT oil has no flavor, so you can add it to anything.

Is testosterone produced through your body at the same amount throughout each day? And using progesterone, would that change how much your adrenaline makes? Is there any issue with changing the amount of adrenaline your body makes? Or will it just naturally align to what it should be? Okay. It's an interesting question. There's no such thing as a progesterone stimulating hormone. So by using progesterone, you're not...

testosterone. Testosterone is, you know, you can, it can affect testosterone levels with testosterone, but not progester levels with progesterone. There's really very little downside to the use of progesterone, the one downside, you familiar to type 1 and type 2 diabetes? Yeah. You familiar with type 3 diabetes? No. Yeah, just the other name for it is insulin resistance in the brain. And it's a precursor to Alzheimer's.

So it's in fact, you may have heard that coconut oil can reverse Alzheimer's. So if somebody has type 3 diabetes or insulin resistance in the brain and they use progesterone, they go low. In fact, it's really a test for type 3 diabetes, which they don't have. They don't know of a test. But if you give somebody progesterone and they get a rapid increase, calpitations, tension, or whatever, then you know they've got insulin resistance. And the whole thing about Alzheimer's, it's really a disease of prevention.

And so if you know you're predisposed to Alzheimer's, then you start doing a lot of coconut oil and MCT oil. Yeah. Is there, like, if someone is having, like, sleeping disorders or having problems, like, would the application of progesterone be something you take an hour before bed or would you wake up if you had to go to the bathroom and use it or is like a protocol for that it's all everybody's different in terms of their needs for progesterone you for the most part you cannot overdose on it you could use it up to 30 times a day you're not going to overdose on it um i usually start people if they have a lot

of adrenaline on four times a day and then when they start eating correctly and their adrenaline goes down then I can reduce it to twice a day. It usually goes on the forearm. You rub the two forms together. The back of the neck is a good place. The upper chest is another. But wherever the skin is thin and there's a good blood supply. The, but, you know, if people go to Amazon and look for the book on Amazon,

They could read the reviews and see what people have to say about adrenaline and progesterone or whatever. Or they go to my website. Yeah, even better. Which is platwellness.com. What besides the, do you remember, you spoke about the incident where you used it in the car and you realized that it stopped you from being hypoglycemic? Were there, was there another times in your life where you found it like, hey, this is really different? Was that the first time you realized that it really worked for you? Or was there this an aha moment?

Well, you know, like most doctors, I had ADHD. And I used to get up a walk out of class. I couldn't focus. I had a real hard time focusing in school. And I waited till the night before always. when I was going to have a test, I didn't study, didn't open a book until the night before an exam. And now that changed when I went to medical school. And the difference was I was interested in medicine.

There was nothing in high school of college I really had any interest in. But medical school, I was interested in medicine. You know, they get kids algebra, which is a course when they leave high school, they'll never need. You know, you don't use algebra once you leave high school. But so, and a lot of, a lot of kids have trouble, trouble with algebra because they're not interested in it. I'm just saying they, if they really understood what ADHD is all about, they could change the curriculum a little bit. Make it easier. Yeah.

I think they could change not only the curriculum in schools, but it seems that it would be a valuable ally in. any sort of counseling or addiction rehab models as well. Okay. Yes, absolutely. What about beyond, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, no, no, no. What about what? I was going to say beyond physical health, like how does it, how does it work on anxiety and depression?

Like a lot of the times we'll see people that, have anxiety and depression. You know, when you talk about, again, we're going to come back to this, you know, treat it the cause of illness. Right. So there are basically two different types of depression. But one of the most common types of depression is caused by internalization of anger. Hmm.

And remember, adrenaline is an anger hormone. So you can have. actually eliminate that type of depression just by reducing adrenaline. I don't know if I answered your question, but, you know, they advertise a thing called an overactive bladder. And they have all sorts of drugs for this. But the only thing that causes an overactive bladder is adrenaline. There's nothing else that causes it. So wouldn't it be better just to lower adrenaline, get rid of it?

I'm just saying that. Yeah, I agree. It seems to me that a lot of modern medicine takes this approach of covering up symptoms instead of addressing the problem. Well, they treat the symptoms, but they don't treat the cause of what makes the symptoms. Yeah. I'd like to apologize to everybody for a medical system. I think it's getting better, though.

I think that people like yourself and a lot of people out there are really going out of their way to begin to see the root cause of the problems and understand that masking a symptom will never solve the real issue. Well, they have a specialty called functional medicine. and functional medicine is supposed to approach the causation of illness. But they, you know, I tried to get some schools that teach functional medicine interested in adrenaline. They had no interest. So I'm not, so I think so I think so have a long way to go. But they're trying. but there's so many blockades.

Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting to think about the world we live in and how much, if you could just change the hormone, if you could just get people to lower their adrenaline on some level and it's actually helping people with all these different things, it could be a real game changer for mental health, for wellness.

Is that what you're seeing in some of the patients that come to you? Well, I change people's lives, the way I have. And like I say, it's very rewarding to get somebody better again. But even, you know, there's a lot of interest in autism. And kids with autism have incredibly high levels of adrenaline. And they do wonderfully just by lowering adrenaline and using progestin cream. You know, those kids with autism who don't, who don't speak, start talking.

And they have a lot to say, actually. But so I'm just saying there's room for improvement if they'll allow it. Yeah. Do you think that some of the obstacles are that health is an industry? And it's almost on some level that seems like there's revolving door, especially when we look at addiction. Sometimes people that have addiction get a pill for treatment that they get addicted to. It just seems like an industry. One of the biggest obstacles are doctors. You know, doctors have a certain way of doing things. I know that in my own hometown, I ran into a lot

of problems with the doctors because they're upset that when their patient came to see me, it took them off all their medications. And that's a real slap in the face to doctors. And so I had a deal with the medical board because of that. And the medical board is funded by drug companies. So, you know, you can just guess how that went. But, you know, medicine has been a passion for me. And like I say, getting people well, it's very rewarding. But we have a long way to go. Absolutely. What was it as a young man growing up that got you involved in medicine? A lot of the times people I spoke to have an incident that happened in their life that caused them to go a certain way. Was that how medicine was for you? No, I, you know, I'm not sure what sport my interest

in medicine, but, but I always like solving things. And medicine has a lot of room to allow for solving. you know people don't realize how important it is for doctor to be able to sit down and talk to a patient because that's how you learn what's going on but doctors are more comfortable doing testing and and i i've always preferred treating people rather than lab test because you could never go wrong treating a problem but you can go wrong treating a lab test um but that's me you know is is this is this method of using progesterone something that's used a lot of times in europe or other countries or even in yeah in different countries they have different methods for treating things is it mostly in the western world that they have a problem with this

or is it progesterone more distributed in other parts of the world as a as a method um i i think The lack of knowledge about progesterone is universal. I don't know. You know, a lot of countries don't allow it to be sent into the, you know. The, I'm just saying, yeah, there's a lot of room out throughout the world for people to learn about progesterone. Yeah. But it's certainly my favorite hormone, yeah. Is that what an, forgive me, I don't thoroughly know, is that, is that what an endocrinologist is,

that someone who looks at hormones and? They look at hormones, but endocrinologists are more comfortable with synthetic hormones rather than natural hormones. Doesn't make sense, but I'm just saying that that's the way it is. Gynecologists, or doctors, including gynecologists, good, no training in hormones. You know, that's why, you know, estradiol is the number one hormone that's prescribed, and it's probably the most toxic. Are you a proponent of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy for people that hit a certain age?

Yes. But that age can be any age. Um, yeah, doctors could, you know, the doctors are not trained for the most thing in the body. I mean, doctors could do with a little bit more training, frankly. Yeah. In some ways, it sounds like it's, it's like that old adage of the generals are fighting the last war. It seems like maybe the doctors are fighting the last, last hundred years of sickness and illness. Yeah.

Yeah. It sounds promising. It sounds like that if you're coming out with this book and more people are beginning to read it and the results are showing such a positive influence on that, even though it's an uphill battle, I got to think that a change can happen from the ground up. One would think. but you know the thing if somebody has a lot of adrenaline and they put some progester cream on they get notice so they're able to focus better um so you know a lot of time you take a drug you don't feel anything but with progesterone if you need it you'll feel it yeah it sounds like that would be something that could be easily testes.

in a lab. You could have a placebo versus that and see the actual results. Well, you could, but you know, you don't need, you don't need to test for progester because most people are low in it. You know, they're low in progester. You know, in my book, I talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. Okay. And the only condition I put in the good category is ADHD. And the reason for that is that the most intelligent, successful, creative people in the world of ADHD.

So I say to myself, how bad can it be? But, and I mentioned that creative people had the most adrenaline. Now, how does somebody know if they're creative, right? Well, creative people are very intuitive about other people. They can pick up good energy and bad energy from people. They have premonitions. They have deja vu-type feelings. When the phone rings, they'll leave the knowledge.

know who it is before they answer or they'll say, I was just thinking about you. They'll also notice that animals will be very attracted to them. Animals can feel the energy that all that increased adrenaline is putting out and they're very attracted to it. So our creative children will be created, will be attracted to them also. But it's important for creative people to realize they've got a lot of adrenaline. So if they're, you know, very often they're fighting weight because you put,

putting out a lot of adrenaline. And they have some anger issues. But it's real easy to treat. What do you think it is on another person that can pick up that energy? Is there, is it like a pheromone or something like that? They're like, wow, I can feel this.

person's testosterone. It's an interesting question. It's just that creative people can pick up other creative type people. These are the healers, you know, the people, or some people say that people come up to them, they don't even know and talk to them about their problem. I'm just saying, They have a certain energy. And whether it's pharoms or who knows, it's something that's drawing people in. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with all of that. It's interesting to me, too.

What about vision? We talked a little bit about the fight or flight, and sometimes your pupils narrow or they take more light in. Is that something that can be harnessed to, to help with adrenaline? Because maybe like a pilot or someone that wants to hit a fastball. Maybe they want to have more adrenaline in there.

Could they take progester on like an hour before or an hour later? Well, you know, athletes, professional athletes have a lot of adrenaline. People in law enforcement. Yeah. People in the military. And they use adrenaline too

as a fighter flight. There are certain condition like Lyme disease that put the body into a fight or flight pattern. And these people have a lot of adrenaline also, a lot of symptoms of Lyme disease, increased adrenaline. This long COVID that they talk about, these people have a lot of symptoms of increased adrenaline. I haven't dealt with these people. I haven't seen them, but I read about them.

but they sound like they've got can be helped by lowering adrenaline it makes me wonder about autoimmune diseases when the body is just attacking itself is that something that has to do with adrenaline too no but it's good to be aware of that um you know multiple sclerosis is a autoimmune disease um and they use the can you can't something called low dose naltrexone are you familiar with that ldn i'm not yeah um it's a drug that has no side effects um and should be used in people with um but the thing about ms is the demyelinating condition and the number the number one um instrument if you will that increases myelin is progesterone

It stimulates the production of myelin. So you would think that automatically people with MS would be put on progesterone. But as it is, you know, most people and most doctors think that progester is a woman's hormone. You know, men actually stop making progester at around the age of 50. And it's after the age of 50, the men start getting prostate cancer because they no longer can block estradiol. and they start putting on weight around the middle because they can't block insulin. So it's an important hormone that nobody ever talks about. Not a perfect world.

Is there like a certain supplemental amount like on a cream that someone over 50 would use or just depend on body and weight or? You know, the strength of progesterone is the important thing. Okay. And progestin comes in different strengths. What I recommend is a 5% progesterone. That means that each pump is 50 milligrams. And that's the exact strength you need to block adrenaline.

You know, they have higher strengths, they have lower strengths, but 5% is the ideal strength. And what is the, we spoke about like a dog. it in its ear and you can see the separation anxiety. Does the, does that particular, is it a day or a two days in someone who may, obviously it probably depends on the malady or the problem they have, but people can start seeing results in up to like 24 hours. Is that accurate? Or less. Or less. Wow. Yeah. Does it, the adrenaline seems to me to be, if someone had had it for a longer period of time. Does that do more damage to the body than if someone catches it a little bit earlier? Or does prolonged adrenaline seem to have prolonged worse effects on the body?

People that have a lot of adrenaline is a life, it's a lifelong thing. And, but easy to fix. Yeah. Yeah. On my website, there's a meal plan to lower adrenaline. if people need it. What about stacking it with other herbs like turmeric or is there things that work synonymous with it with progesterone or lowering adrenaline? You know, it's a good question, but it's something I have not looked into. But there are certain herbs that help block adrenaline also.

And you might be able to get it. I've never done that. because I never felt the need. But I'm trying to, yeah, it could work. I don't think it would hurt. Yeah. What about outside influence is? Is it like weather or sunshine?

Do these outside or epigenetic potential? Is there epigenetic triggers for higher adrenaline? If there is, I'm not aware of it. Yeah. Yeah. It would be interesting. My brain just starts running a million miles an hour. You know, sometimes we hear about fathers who become or a man who becomes a father for the first time, you know.

You know, people hear about PTSD. PTSD is all about adrenaline. Restless Lake syndrome is all about adrenaline. And, you know, they use drugs for these disorders. But why not just treat the cause of them? Yeah, what? It's interesting. A lot of the times they'll use like an SSRI.

Like, what do you know about, what's the relationship between serotonin and adrenaline or is, is there one? Well, they're both neurotransmitters. Right. Yeah, the SSRI, I don't like drugs to begin with. Agreed. To be honest, but there are also medication called NRIs, norophen-ephydrhaphtin inhibitors.

And what people should realize is that these increased adrenaline, it's like gridolin and Adderall and strata. They're pure adrenaline. That's why sudden death is one of the side effects of these drugs, which is acceptable to the medical community. But anyway, so the, but here you have somebody with ADHD who's got a lot of adrenaline to begin with, takes a drug that increases their adrenaline. And what that does, it numbs their brain, which is why a lot of people don't like these drugs.

So what I recommend is lowering adrenaline. rather than increasing it. That's me. Yeah. It's interesting to me. When you were writing this book, was there a certain chapter or was there something that you learned

writing this book that you didn't know before you started writing it? I think most of what's in there, in the last chapter, I talk about my running with the medical boards. Yeah, that's always an interesting point. In any book is the confrontation and then the outcome that happens from there.

Do you see maybe another book coming after this? Like, it seems to me that there could be a whole series of like case studies or just interesting stories or clients that have been able to be helped through it. And then the dialogue between them. I would read that book as well. Well, this was actually my second book. The first book was called The Miracle of Bi identical Hormones. And that book literally brought thousands of patients to my office from all over the country and all over the world came in because of that book. And it's different from other hormone books, but because it explained how you could use hormones to get well again.

You know, you could actually eliminate asthma with progesterone. You know, some women, if they cough or sneeze, they lose urine. And you can get rid of that in three days if they treat it correctly. So, yeah, so it teaches, it talks about the thyroid and, you know. Yeah. It's fascinating. Dr. Michael Platt, I'm so thankful for your. time today and I think we just kind of scratched the surface of it. I can't, I have almost every

one of those symptoms from like tingling fingers or numbing fingers to like ADHD. Like I have a bunch. So I'm excited to first off, I could talk to you and ask you these questions, number one. Number two, to get to get the book and everybody should go into the show notes and check out the book, adrenaline dominance, a revolutionary approach to wellness by Dr. Michael E. Platt. I think that anybody who finds themselves looking for answers would do well by reading this book and looking into the research and reaching out to Dr. Michael Platt himself and seeing his research out there. It's really a transformative time. And many of us know people who have been affected by the medical system and are looking for answers to help heal our own wounds. And before I let you go, Dr.

where can people find you? What do you have coming up and what are you excited about? Well, I'm actually recently retired. But I'm still available to answer questions. I think I may write another book. I wrote a manual called the Platt Protocol for hormone balancing. And it's for doctors. Teach them how to do hormones.

and that's available on my website. But, yeah, I'll find something to do. I'm not worried. Yeah. Yeah, it sounds like it can be very helpful to relationships and the way we see ourselves. That's another point, too, is sometimes changing the way we think about things

can fundamentally change the way we model reality. It sounds like hormones are a big part of that. it's not a perfect world. Yeah. It really isn't it? And on top of everything else that's going on, we have all these changes due to the weather. Because we're destroying this earth.

So I guess the least that somebody can do is the least get their hormones in balance. Can't get the world imbalance. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it starts with each one of us trying to become the best version of ourselves. And that would mean our, you know, at least start on our hormones, right? Well, doctor, I'm super thankful for your time today. And I appreciate you being here and I appreciate all the work you're doing.

I think it's fascinating and interesting. And I'm very thankful that there's people out there like you that want to help heal people and make their lives better. So thank you for that. I truly appreciate it. And hang on briefly afterwards. I'm going to hang up with our friends, but I'll talk to you briefly afterwards.

And that's all we've got for today. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for hanging out with us today on the True Life podcast. I hope you have a beautiful day. Go to the show notes and check out the book. Check out Dr. Michael Platt. And have a beautiful day.

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